RESEARCH

Humanities Research

→ The Structure and Meaning of Heideggerian Dasein (2024)
The Reed | St Olaf College – v. 26 Spring
An outline and critical evaluation of Martin Heidegger’s account of being-in-the-world in Being and Time (Sein und Zeit).

→ Jean-Paul Sartre’s Theory of Intentionality in Being and Nothingness (2024)
Open Philosophy | De Gruyter – forthcoming v. 7(2)
A critical examination of Jean-Paul Sartre’s theory of intentionality in Being and Nothingness (L’Être et le néant : Essai d’ontologie phénoménologique).

→ An Analysis of Meta-Aesthetic Interplay in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2023)
How are the ideas of transformation and transgression linked in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

→ Serious Triviality: Deception and Paradox in The Importance of Being Earnest (2023)
The subtitle for Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest is “A Trivial Play for Serious People.” Here I investigate what might be serious about its apparent triviality.

→ Yukio Mishima and the Alchemy of Discrete Literatures (2023)
Discerning a country’s economic, political, and historical context in the study of a national canon by way of analyzing the intercultural interplay of Yukio Mishima’s work.

→ Sublime Unification: Science and Sentiment in Eliot’s Middlemarch (2022)
This paper examines how George Eliot elevates the detached observation of empiricism to a sublime moral sentiment by articulating the events of Middlemarch through an allusive network of scientific metaphor.

→ The Charitable Search for Béroul’s Effectiveness (2022)
Alan S. Fedrick has observed that Béroul’s Romance of Tristran lacks “a coherent plot, an ordered flow of events with a clearly discernible causal nexus, and convincing characterization.” Nevertheless, many scholars argue that it has value as a work of art. Here I’ve analyzed how Béroul’s text manages to function despite its apparent flaws.